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United States Patent | 5,155,921 |
Banike | October 20, 1992 |
A portable table assembly for facilitating initial alignment in mounting of a metallic printing plate to a magnetic plate cylinder includes a table having a top surface for supporting the metallic printing plate. A roller is mounted in the table and is exposed on the top surface for guiding the metallic printing plate along the top surface. The roller has an axis perpendicular to a line defined by a direction the metallic printing plate moves when mounting the metallic printing plate from the top surface onto the magnetic plate cylinder. An arcuate bracket is mounted to a bottom side of the table and supports the top surface at a tangent to the plate cylinder with an upper edge of the table resting on the plate cylinder. The bracket engages a locating cylinder having an axis substantially parallel to the magnetic plate cylinder and lying adjacent to the magnetic plate cylinder.
Inventors: | Banike; Ronald A. (Orland Park, IL) |
Assignee: | R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Lisle, IL) |
Appl. No.: | 733861 |
Filed: | July 22, 1991 |
Current U.S. Class: | 33/618; 33/623 |
Intern'l Class: | B41F 027/00; B41B 011/00 |
Field of Search: | 33/614,618,623,617,621,620,619 101/DIG. 36 |
2711691 | Jun., 1955 | Leavens | 33/618. |
4446625 | May., 1984 | Hagan et al. | 33/621. |
4743324 | May., 1988 | Boyce et al. | 33/621. |